Being one of the most notable characters during the socialist movement during the early 20th century. He was there when socialism in the United States was probably at its height. So, I am curious about his views on the October revolution and the Soviet Union in its early times, and his views in Marxism in general.
“We have nothing special to offer the negro” is all I’m capable of remembering him for. The odious first steps of the “class war only” philosophy that guides the modern day white left; in spite and willful ignorance of defaulted-upon reparations for all that Amerika has done to my folk.
He is the epitome of "don’t talk about it, be about it" to me-- because for someone who says “he blushes” at the knowledge of what his people did to mine, he made no moves to rectify it.